Congrats on winning.
I'll post a mini-report; I hope to keep it shorter than yours but I'll probably fail.
There were just over 20 people tonite and I played Mon, Goblin Chiefs "The Shining" with a couple changes like MD TimeTwister and Lim Duls Vault.
Match 1: Jon Flores with lightly powered Mask.
Jon has the Ruby and a Mox Jet in such bad condition that we call it the Ox Jet. It's not really enough power to run such a hungry deck as Mask consistently, but then there are Dark Rituals to pick up some of the slack.
Game 1: He launches with an Unmask and I protect my Land-Brainstorm hand with FoW. He Duresses to see what I was protecting and takes the Brainstorm hoping to screw me. I topdeck Tropical though and make his play look substandard by playing TimeWalk and rejoinging the game. I get an early Burning Wish for Balance to clear the board and then don't draw any Future Sights or Wishes until I have 3/4ths of my deck on the table. "Do you have a win condition?", Jon asks forlornly near the end of the game. "It's in here somewhere," I reply.
Game 2: The first game went quite long; I play slowly and I drew so much of my deck that it probably took 45 minutes. In the second I have a godly hand of LoA, Blue Mox, Red Mox, Vault, FoF, Land, Mana Drain. I get Duressed and he takes the Mana Drain, which is more annoying because it wrecks my LoA. I drop Vault and FoF quickly. I get Tolarian which he Sinkholes, then he Wastes my LoA before I can use it. His draw is so defensive that he isnt making any progress, but I cant find a Future Sight so I'm not going anywhere either. He Duresses me at one point and I decide to let him look at a hand of Drain, Drain, Brainstorm. He takes the Brainstorm to blunt any initiative I have; that kinda summarizes the game. Anyway, time expires before either of us do anything.
Match 2: David Ochoa with Void
Game 1: I savagely stomp him by resolving Future Sight and playing my deck out.
Game 2: I Mana Drain Hymn to set up Future Sight and then have a complete mental failure. I use the Drain mana for a pointless Wish. I got fascinated by a convoluted plan involving Wishing for Lobotomy instead of just winning with Future Sight. I lose when he Sinkholes one of my precious lands and I've stacked my deck incorrectly off the Brainstorm that started this whole sequence. Mega-doh!
Game 3: My position is fine, but I can't find the Future Sight to win before time expires. Draw.
Match 3: Clinton Ellis MonoB
Clint is hoping this will be a fast game so he can have some food. Since all of my matches have gone to the limit this turns out to be unlikely.
Game 1: I mull to 6 and have to keep a Land-Brainstorm sort of hand. He savagely smashes my permanent and I play draw-go for a while. He gets me low in life, but I Brainstorm into Tolarian, Mox, Future Sight and am able to cast everything next turn. I clear out the board with a Balance-Zorb and use the Future Sight to claw my way past his stuff.
Game 2: Again he crushes my stuff. I manage to stay in the game by Y-Willing twice with Burning Wish. I get down to my last Wish and have to use it to go for the Torch. I have no Academy, but he took lots of damage from his Flesh Reaver and I am able to put together a 16 point Torch to win on the 4th round of time.
Match 4: Zack Jones
Game 1: I mull to 6 and keep another Land+Brainstorm hand going first. But he is the buzzsaw. He crushes my land and starts Hymning me. I have Lotus+Jet on the board and Future Sight in hand so I feel I am inches from winning. I draw my land when I am two turns from death. I can Lotus->RRR+Tundra to Wish for Balance and leave us with no creatures, one land and one card. I decide that Future Sight just wins so I should play that. I turn up a Mana Drain. He Sinkholes my Tundra and hits me with 2 Shades. I turn up another Mana Drain and die. Losing with Future Sight in play; how shameful.
Game 2: I keep a decent hand, but somehow it all goes wrong. He keeps smashing my land, but thats OK since I started with 3+Mox. I decide not to TimeTwister at 3 mana, instead trying to set up Future Sight with my Tutors. I get double-Hymned. Hrm. I draw a string of land, so either a Future Sight or a Tutor will potentially save me, but I draw more land instead. I should have Twistered.
Overall, the deck is interesting, but it has a lot of the weaknesses which I hate in zero-Island 5c Keeper (double Wasteland, you lose). I didn't get to play it against control so I'd be curious how that matchup goes. Certainly URPhid would have been horrible. Blood Moon, more counters and his own Future Sight. Ouch.
